n. 1. The surrounding and blockading of a city, town, or fortress by an army attempting to capture it. 2. A prolonged period, as of illness: a siege of asthma. 3. Obsolete A seat, especially a throne. tr.v. sieged, sieg·ing, sieg·es To subject to a siege; besiege: The invaders sieged the castle. [Middle English sege, from Old French, seat, from Vulgar Latin *sedicum, from *sedicāre, to sit, from Latin sedēre; see sed- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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